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Suporper I. ERICINEZE. Tur Hearn FAMILY. 
3. EPIGZEA, L. Grounp LAUREL. 
Calyx deeply 5-parted, colored ; the lobes acuminate. Corolla salver-shaped, 
5-cleft. Stamens 10: anthers oblong, awnless, opening lengthwise. Capsule 
depressed-globose, 5-celled, many-seeded. — A prostrate shrubby plant, hispid 
with rust-colored hairs. Leaves evergreen, cordate-oval, entire, reticulated. 
Flowers in dense bracted racemes, white, fragrant. 
` 1. E. repens, L. Dry sandy soil, Florida, and northward. Feb. and 
March. — Stem 6’-12/ long. Racemes shorter than the leaves. 
: 4, GAULTHERIA, Kalm. WINTERGREEN. 
Calyx. 5-lobed, becoming berry-like in fruit. Corolla ovate, 5-toothed. 
Stamens 10: anther-cells 2-awned at the apex, opening ‘by a terminal pore. 
Capsule enclosed in the berry-like calyx, depressed-globose, 5-celled, 5-valved, 
many-seeded. — Shrubs, with alternate leaves, and white or red flowers. 
1. G. procumbens, L. Smooth; stem creeping; the short (3'-5') 
branches erect, naked below; leaves oval or obovate, serrulate, shining; pedi- 
cels axillary, 1-flowered, nodding; fruiting calyx bright red. Shady woods 
and banks, especially among the mountains, North Carolina and northward. 
June. — Whole plant aromatic. | uem 
5. LEUCOTHOE, Don. 
Calyx deeply 5-parted, imbricated in the bud, unchanged in fruit. Corolla 
ovate or cylindrical, 5-toothed. Stamens 10: anthers awnless, or the cells 
1 - 2-awned at the apex, opening by a terminal pore. Stigma capitate. Capsule 
depressed-globose, not thickened at the sutures, 5-celled, 5-valved, many-seeded. 
Seeds pendulous. — Shrubs, with alternate leaves, and white flowers in axillary 
or terminal one-sided racemes. 
* Anthers awnless or nearly so: racemes axillary, shorter than the evergreen leaves. 
1. L. axillaris, Don. Leaves oval or oblong, abruptly acute, spinulose- 
Serrulate toward the apex, on short petioles; racemes short, dense-flowered ; 
calyx-lobes ovate, acute; anther-cells 2-horned. (Andromeda axillaris, Lam.) 
— Sandy swamps, and banks of streams in the lower districts, Florida to North 
Carolina, and westward. Feb. and March.— Stem and branches curving. 
- Leaves 2/- 4' long. $ I i > 
2. L. Catesbæi, Gray, Leaves ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, spinulose- 
Serrulate throughout, on conspicuous petioles; racemes dense-flowered ; calyx- 
lobes ovate-oblong ; anther-cells not horned. (Andromeda spinulosa, Pursh.) — 
_ Banks of streams along the mountains, Georgia and North Carolina. March — n 
(834 April. — Stem 2°- 4° high. vim Ss 
. . .* L. acuminata, Dunal. Stem tall, with straight and 
